and ezra klein, you are the official. >>> re-election. let's play "hardball."in washington. let me start with politics. how do you win elections? start with your base. they are the ones. you lock them in. then go to the reachables. those inclined to vote for you. they're the twos. then the undecided. the threes. leave the fours to the other guy. watch obama run. he worked hard recent weeks to lock in women voters with equal pay. underlining his issue on women's issues with a push from biden, he has done the same on gays backing full marriage he qualities. last week, he

they like being protected from both insurance companies and from bad luck. >> ezra klein, nbc policy who never has to apologize for being boring because you have yet to be boring. >> well, thank you. >> at least here. thank you, ezra, i appreciate it. you know, i will say that the really bold move here, i mean, maybe it's true. maybe nobody messages for health reform on the election and it depends on who's the next president. the but the bold move here would be for the president to use massachusetts as the example. to say look, this is the template. look what mitt romney did. 100% insurance rate for kids. 98% for the rest of the population. look how well it's working for massachusetts and great care. you're about to stay that. stick with me. >>> the best news of the day began with a metaphor call train wreck. >> the individual mandate has been ruled unconstitutional. >> it appears as if the supreme court justices has struck down the individual mandate, the centerpiece of the legislation. >> the court striking down that mandate is a dramatic blow to the policy and to the president pol

they like being protected from both insurance companies and from bad luck. >> ezra klein, nbc policy as to apologize for being boring because you have yet to be boring. >> well, thank you. >> at least here. thank you, ezra, i appreciate it. you know, i will say that the really bold move here, i mean, maybe it's true. maybe nobody messages for health reform on the election and it depends on who's the next president. the but the bold move here would be for the president to use massachusetts as the example. to say look, this is the templa template. look what mitt romney did. 100% insurance rate for kids. 98% for the rest of the population. look how well it's working for massachusetts and great care. you're about to stay that. stick with me. recently, students from 31 countries took part in a science test. the top academic performers surprised some people. so did the country that came in 17th place. let's raise the bar and elevate our academic standards. let's do what's best for our students-by investing in our teachers. let's solve this. trouble with a car insurance claim. [ voice of den

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they like being protected from both insurance companies and from bad luck. >> ezra klein, nbc policy because you have yet to be boring.ç >> well, thank you. >> at least here. thank you, ezra, i appreciate it. you know, i will say that the really bold move here, i mean, maybe it's true. maybe nobody messages for health reform on the election and it depends on who's the next president. the but the bold move here would be for the president to use massachusetts as the example. to say look, this is the template. look what mitt romney did. 100% insurance rate for kids. 98% for the rest of the population. look how well it's working for massachusetts and great care. you're about to stay that. stick with me. i went to a small high school. the teacher that comes to mind for me is my high school math teacher, dr. gilmore. i mean he could teach. he was there for us, even if we needed him in college. you could call him, you had his phone number. he was just focused on making sure we were gonna be successful. he would never give up on any of us. right? get. out. exactly! really?! [ mom ] what? sh

and from washington, ezra klein, a washington columnist and msnbc contributor.siness -- ezra, excuse us for a moment. we've got a little business to conduct here. so how did you go -- in fact, i have a clip of you and your friend, stephen colbert, i just want to show quickly here. >> please welcome the official chaplain of the colbert nation, father jim martin. papa j., what's going on? >> now, how did you go from a mere friend of the show, which i am, having done the show exactly once, and never been invited back, stephen -- how did you go from friend of the show to official chaplain? >> he elevated me one night, you know, the way that a cardinal is elevated to the -- >> just right there, during the production, without checking with you or anything? >> right. >> so how much does he pay you for that? >> zero. >> we can do this in latin. people don't have to hear. >> feel free. >> okay. he pays you zero? >> he pays me zero, and i've taken a vow of poverty, so even if he gave me money, i would have to pay it to the jesuits, anyway. >> so you can be pouting, with a

and joining us from washington, we have ezra klein. ndc partners miles nadal back on the show. good to have you on. >> pleasure to be here. >> good day to have him on. >> how are you guys doing? that's a good way to start. >> how is the business? >> well, business has been very good. but it was interesting. i was with 120 top ceos thursday and friday. and i would say to you that since 2008, i haven't seen more concern on the faces of executives than i see right now. people are talking about the possibility of the recreation of the kind of uncertainty we had in 2008. you know, i think that the stock market is reflecting that. the market in may was at 1422. the s&p is now at 1272. you know, the 10-year bond is now at 1.5%. you know, the market is trading at 12.4 times earnings. and the interesting thing that they talked about was china. big concern with china, the slowdown in the last 60 days. india is a disaster. the eu obviously has challenges. and, you know, america has got a bunch of issues that are really looming. the debt ceiling n

if karl rove wants to know who may take out their wall >>> i >>> i ezra klein am about to attempt something death defying, i'm going to attempt something that to my knowledge has never been done in primetime television, i'm going the try to convince you in less than two minutes that you should care, really truly care if spanish bond percents are at the right percent. what are they, a bond is what governments use to borrow money. you want money, you sell a bond. the yield is the percent that the government gets on the loan. the more confident a country is that they will be able to pay it back, the less you have to pay to borrow, so we pay just about nothing. a country like spain is considered less of a safe bet so they pay more. a lot more. but here is the thing, most countries print their own currency. so even if they are irresponsible, they print more money and pay down debts, but that can lead to inflation, and a bit of that is better than defaulting all together. but now spain is part of the euro, they do not control their money anymore, and because investors are worried about the future

it's back, and i feel much better and big thanks to everyone here who picked up the slack, and ezra klein who sat in for me for a full week. i'm glad to be back, and there's tons going on in the news. as usual in american political news, the most interesting thing that's going on in politics right now is not actually the stuff happening at the federal level but what is happening at the state level. this weekend for example, did you know that the republican party convention happened in the great state of montana? it was kind of a doozy. it was held in miziela, montana, at the hilton garden inn and parked out in front of the hilton garden inn for the state republican party convention was this. it's an outhouse that features fake graffiti that says for a good time, call 1-800-michelle. and that's crossed out and it says for a good time, call hillary, and that's crossed outs and is says for a good time, call pelosi, and that's circled in red. the outhouse is riddled in painted on bullet holes as though someone has shot it up. it also has a fake birth certificate in it for the president, it sa

and ezra klein, you are the official. >>> re-election. let's play "hardball." good evening i'm chris matthew in washington. let me start with politics. how do you win elections? start with your base. they are the ones. you lock them in. then go to the reachables. those inclined to vote for you. they're the twos. then the undecided. the threes. leave the fours to the other guy. watch obama run. he worked hard recent weeks to lock in women voters with equal pay. underlining his issue on women's issues with a push from biden, he has done the same on gays backing full marriage he qualities. last week, he went further than any other politician in history protecting young immigrants. brought to this country illegal by their parents. in each case, he's taken action the other guy, romney, won't do because he sold himself to the right-wing pressure groups. he is going where the other guy can't go and scored politically. this hour we expect president obama to give a news conference at the g-20 summit in mexico and we will bring that to you live when it happens. let's bri

ezra klein in is filling in for rachel maddow tonight. evening, ezra. >>> good evening, michael. how you doing? >> doing fine, my friend. good to see you. >> and you. thank you, michael. thks

vote and now folks like the >>> it may surprise, maybe even shock, many of you to learn that i, ezra klein sort of like the star wars movies. well, the original three, anyway. and to be honest, my feelings about "return" is complicated. i an throw around words like darth mal. darth mal? some of you would know what i mean. but i won't. this is a news program for everyone. also i will not talk like yoda, even though i can. and sometimes maybe i do. what i will say is today's best new thing in the world contained some awesome news concerning luke skywalker's home planet of tattooing. the best new thing, star wars edition, coming up. oh, and one last thing. >>> on the issue of killer spy drones, america's not like other countries. for one thing, we have them. i mean, other countries have some of them but we have a lot of them. we have way more of them and we're really, really good at making them. america's drone supremacy is unrivaled. we're number one. we're number one. and it will probably stay that way until we begin selling our drone technology to every tom, dick and hungry. until then we'

ezra klein is fill in for rachel maddow tonight. >> how are you doing? >> always good to see you on tv or in the crib as they say. >> great to see you. good job. >>> thanks to you at home for sticking around the next hour. rachel has the night off. what if i were to tell you there's a surefire way to put people back to work right now, tomorrow?

ezra klein is fill in for rachel maddow tonight. >> how are you doing? >> always good to see you on tv or in the crib as they say. >> great to see you. good job. >>> thanks to you at home for sticking around the next hour. rachel has the night off. what if i were to tell you there's a surefire way to put people back to work right now, tomorrow? what if i were to tell you this surefire job creator is something that's been embraced even by republicans going back decades? what if i were to tell you over the last three years we've been doing the exact opposite of this tested proven thing that helps end recessions? >> i have a graph for you tonight. it's an unusual type of graft. it's a mystery graph. going to see what i mean here. in 1981 shortly after ronald reagan was sworn in as president, he faced an awful recession. the worst since the great depression, in fact. and one of the things that reagan did as president to help get people back to work after that recession, he made this blue line right here go up. that blue line went up and so did jobs. in 1990,

it's back, and i feel much better and big thanks to everyone here who picked up the slack, and ezra klein who sat in for me for a full week. i'm glad to be back, and there's tons going on in the news. as usual in american political news, the most interesting thing that's going on in politics right now is not actually the stuff happening at the federal

ezra klein in is filling in for rachel maddow tonight. you doing? >> doing fine, my friend. good to see you. >> and you. thank you, michael. thanks to you at home for sticking around the next hour. rachel has the night off. we have a ton of news in the show tonight including the late latest state legislature to move toward allowing less voters in the fall. the number of drone bases that occur in the united states of america. not sure if you folks knew that. the actual news about luke skywalker's home planet. you heard me right about that. >>> we begin tonight with mitt romney's latest stump speech. on tuesday mr. romney gave a speech in orlando, florida, outlining his plan to repeal and replace president obama's health care law. i swear to you nothing could have made me happier. you want to know why favorite things? it's not rain drops and roses and whiskers on kittens and all that. it's presidential candidate health care plans. there is nothing i love more than a good presidential candidate health care plan. so i was excited, i was stoke

ezra klein in is filling in for rachel maddow tonight. you doing? >> doing fine, my friend. good to see you. >> and you. thank you, michael. thanks to you at home for sticking around the next hour. rachel has the night off. we have a ton of news in the

ezra klein filling in for rachel tonight. good evening. >> thank you very much, and thank you to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. rachel has tonight off, but we have a very, very packed show coming up. it begins with the biggest news of the 2012 campaign so far, but it's important to say this, it's not just campaign news. it's news that will decide whether 30 million americans receive health insurance beginning in 2014. next week, the supreme court is expected to rule on whether the individual mandate, the portion of president obama's health care law that required every american who can afford it to have health insurance or pay a fine is constitutional. no one really knows where the court is going to come down, but the odds don't look good for the health care bill. a poll shows 54% of supreme court clerks show the law will be overturned. that's up from 35% who thought that before the oral arguments. it gives the 76% chance of it being overturned. if the court does overturn the mandate, it's almost certainly

i'm joined by michael steele, ezra klein, casey hunt and mark zandy.s" is next here from washington. good afternoon to you. >>> good afternoon. great job there. coming up next, the g-20 wraps up today. what have they accomplished? we will check with chuck todd. >>> plus the end of the romney bus tour with chris cillizza. >>> can eric holder escape being held in contempt of congress? his wing man, congressman elijah cummings, joining me here. >>> she's not from texas but gale collins is certainly messing with texas. all that next on "andrea mitchell reports." times and conference times. but what we'd rather be making are tee times. tee times are the official start of what we love to do. the time for shots we'd rather forget, and the ones we'll talk about forever. in michigan long days, relaxing weather and more than 800 pristine courses make for the perfect tee time. because being able to play all day is pure michigan. your trip begins at michigan.org. let's compare. germ party! eww! now the colgate total mouth. nice! [ female announcer ] colgate total

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joining me today, msnbc policy analyst, ezra klein of "washington post," nbc news political analyst, former pennsylvania çgovernor, ed rendell, the host of msnbc's "up with chris hayes," chris hayes, also author of "twilight of the elites" and "usa today" politics reporter, the lovely jackie kucinich is on set with us. fresh off his health care victory, president obama is back in the mode of commander in chief today. the president is flying to colorado right now, where firefighters are battling the largest fire in state history. when he returns to washington, there will still be burning embers as republicans characterize the supreme court's ruling on the affordable care act as a new tax and vow to repeal it. after the ruling yesterday, there was no spiking of the football or victory dance from the president, but our friends over at the "tonight" show gave us a look at what that might look like. ♪ >> i think he's feeling pretty good about it. >> joining us now from washington is "time" magazine and msnbc senior political analyst who does a mean moonwalk, i hear, mark halperin, whose

." >> joining me today, msnbc policy analyst, ezra klein of the "washington post."rmer rnc chair, the notorious michael steele. cnbc chief washington correspondent, john harwood of the "new york times" and the lovely kasie hunt of the associated press. the white house is locking horns with republican leaders in congress today. president obama exerted executive privilege over justice department documents demanded by the house oversight committee. the committee is voting today on whether attorney general eric holder should be held in contempt of congress for refusing to turn over those documents. committee chairman darrell issa said the executive privilege should have been ordered eight months ago when they first requested the material. >> more than eight months after a subpoena and clearly after the question of executive privilege could have and should have been asserted, this untimely assertion by the justice department falls short of any reason to delay today's proceedings. >> joining us now, nbc news capitol hill correspondent, kelly o'donnell. tell us what this d

ezra klein is filling in for rachel maddow tonight. >> how are you doing?he crib as they say. have a good show tonight, my friend. >> great to see you. good job.

. >>> it may surprise, maybe even shock, many of you to learn that i, ezra klein, i sort of like the well, the original three, anyway. and to be honest, my feelings about "return of t" is complica. i an throw around words like darth mal. darth mal? some of you would know what i mean. but i won't. this is a news program for everyone. also i will not talk like yoda, even though i can. and sometimes maybe i do. what i will say is today's best new thing in the world contained some awesome news concerning luke skywalker's home planet of tattooing. the best new thing, star wars edition, coming up. oh, and one last thing. an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement available only with liberty mutual auto insurance, if your car's totaled, we give you the money for a car one model year newer. to learn more, visit us today. responsibility. what's your policy? that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. for half the calories plus veggie nutrition. could've had a v8. >>> on the issue of killer spy drones, america's not like other countries. for one thing, we have them. i

ezra klein filling in for rachel tonight.ch, and thank you to you at home for staying with us for the next hour. rachel has tonight off, but we have a very, very packed show coming up. it begins with the biggest news of the 2012 campaign so far, but it's important to say this, it's not just campaign news. it's news that will decide whether 30 million americans receive health insurance beginning in 2014. next week, the supreme court is expected to rule on whether the individual mandate, the portion of president obama's health care law that required every american who can afford it to have health insurance or pay a fine is constitutional. no one really knows where the court is going to come down, but the odds don't look good for the health care bill. a poll shows 54% of supreme court clerks show the law will be overturned. that's up from 35% who thought that before the oral arguments. it gives the 76% chance of it being overturned. if the court does overturn the mandate, it's almost certainly going to be on a party line

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. >>> it may surprise, maybe even shock, many of you to learn that i, ezra klein, i sort of like ther wars movies. well, the original three, anyway. and to be honest, my feelings about "return" is complicated. i an throw around words like darth mal. darth mal? some of you would know what i mean. but i won't. this is a news program for everyone. also i will not talk like yoda, even though i can. and sometimes maybe i do. what i will say is today's best new thing in the world contained some awesome news concerning luke skywalker's home planet of tattooing. the best new thing, star wars edition, coming up. oh, and one last thing. it's very important to understand how math and science kind of makes the world work. in high school, i had a physics teacher by the name of mr. davies. he made physics more than theoretical, he made it real for me. we built a guitar, we did things with electronics and mother boards. that's where the interest in engineering came from. so now, as an engineer, i have a career that speaks to that passion. thank you, mr. davies. with less chronic osteoarthritis pain

i'm joined by ezra klein, policy analyst, washington columnist and bloomberg contributor ovik roy.health care policy for forbes and the national review. my congresswoman until january. there is a parking sign outside my house we have to talk about. >> municipal! >> let's see if we can get a special billç pushed through. great to have you back. professor of law and political science at yale and former law clerk for judge steven briar. great to have you here. let's start with reaction to the ruling. we have been chewing it over for a few days. congresswoman, i want to get your perspective because you watched the legislative bate play out and the prospect of it all crumbling at the court must have been depressing. >> it's so interesting. we were in a caucus meeting talking about ironically enough the contempt vote that was coming up. the democratic caucus was meeting and that's when the decision came down. we were confused, to be honest. >> as was america. >> and certain news networks. >> exactly. that we won't go into at this moment. but once we had a reading of it we felt vindicate

ezra klein for example is a group of people who work with him on his blog site, they turn around 300,400 word analysis throughout the day. things are coming out of the transcripts. we were writing houses. so there is that form. i think there is also a new form of content that is the conversations that readers themselves have and the content stream on different news organizations are different quality and i can't say "the washington post" always -- but you do see sometimes really interesting, thoughtful commerce stations taking place in the comment stream on web sites and i think that is a different form of content. >> oh please. >> the comment sections that have grown up are so much worse than we had 20 or 25 years ago. >> like i say i'm not proud of "the washington post" commentary. [laughter] there is a limit to how much you can gate keeping her readers however i think you can look on some of the web sites, i mean take my former -- "the wall street journal" web site has terrific conversations taking place on the extremely congresspeople on matters of economics. we do occasionally ha